Columns

Moment of Silence A moment of silence, please. NASA’s Mars rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, have died. Since 2003, both exploring machines have sent information back about...

I now feel like a kid on Christmas Eve.  Up until now, I was on the naughty list. Then ‘lo and behold,’ my wife...

School Board’s Sloppy, Secretive Management The July 16 School Board meeting was a battle between the public, who demands to be heard, and a school...

By Rebecca Washington-Lindsey February has been an exciting but also challenging one as the cultural organization We All Matter implemented African American (Black) History Month...

By Roger Butow Late in the evening on Sunday, Jan. 21, Briggs Christian (Corky) Morris-Smith exhaled his last breath as his son Kurt read to...

A Sanity Assessment Instead of making a list of New Year's resolutions, maybe it is time for another approach. Knowing where you are is the...

The Gifts of Silence Time has become a speed freak. It’s Monday, and then I blink, and it’s Friday. This has been going on for...

By Theresa Keegan Members of Third Street Writer’s group, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting writing in Laguna Beach, recently visited the art display “Piece-ful Protest”....

by Chris Quilter   Firmly convinced of the superiority of my driving skills, I'm a lousy passenger. Drivers generally put up with my involuntary gasps, Vulcan...

Laguna’s French Connection is Hot, Très Chaude!  The late August temperature in the coastal city of Menton, Laguna’s French sister city, is 91 degrees Fahrenheit....

This Little Piggy I like to run my piggies through cool, green grass. Feels good. So, my feet and the rest of me were relieved...

A Trip to Eureka, Utah My last surviving uncle, he’s 95, called with an urgent request. Would I travel to Eureka, Utah and clean up...

Turning Point By Chris Quilter A while ago, in a fit of candor, I lamented to my brother Patrick: “I’m turning into Mom.” With timing honed...

An Infrequent Appearance So many seasons had come and gone since I was able to look down from my deck and see the goat herd...

This column was going to be a reprise of an old election tradition, “Fast JJ’s Picks”. That’s where the city council race is depicted as...